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Release Schedule of Pardus 2009

havan — Fri, 22 May 2009 12:22:12 +0000

Pardus 2009 maintainer Onur Küçük announced the release schedule of Pardus 2009 today. So here is the long awaited 2009 release;

27 May – Alpha
19 June – Beta
3 July – RC1
10 July – RC2
17 July – Stable

In this release Pardus 2009’s main desktop will be KDE4 and all the Pardus tools like package manager, network manager will be ported to Qt4. You can download cd images from the official page when they are out.

Compression Tools: lzma, bzip2 & gzip

havan — Mon, 11 May 2009 06:55:32 +0000

Today I was taking a regular backup of our server in the office. After I collect all the files, I tried to burn them to a DVD and see that 4.4GB DVD is ~50MB short. I did not want to burn another DVD for a 50MB, so decided to zip the Zimbra backup file, which is 2.5GB in size. I choose lzma because I’ve read somewhere that its ratio is better that others. But that was clearly a bad decision!

Compression took ~50 minutes. Despite the small file size of ~750MB, didn’t worth it because of the very long compression time. So I decided to make a small compression tools test. I have used a 355MB svn dump backup file. Here are my results* with lzma, bzip2 and gzip;

Compression test results (lower is better)

So, with a little loss in compression ratio, gzip performs much faster. Of course, I know that this chart would be different if the input file, svn dump, is a different type of file or size. But I use to backup mainly this kind of text based files, so this works for me.

* Test system: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo T5750 (2.00GHz) CPU, 2GB ram, Pardus 2008 (Linux 2.6.25.20-114) OS, lzma sdk 4.32, bzip2 1.0.5, gzip 1.3.12, default settings used for all tools.

Turkish i18n for Fusion Theme

havan — Tue, 05 May 2009 22:45:12 +0000

I translated Fusion theme (this blog’s theme) into Turkish for my Turkish blog. I contacted with Milenko Popović the designer of the theme and hopefully it will be in the version 2.8.

I have also created a Git repository for this purpose. If you do not want to wait you may check out turkish-i18n-for-fusion-theme repository at Github.com